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robotsrule sends in a follow-up to our earlier discussion of the bankruptcy of Ugobe, maker of the Pleo robotic dinosaur: "Jetta Company Limited, based in China and Hong Kong, the company that manufactured the Pleo baby robot dinosaur for Ugobe, has bought the intellectual property rights and other assets at the Ugobe bankruptcy sale that occurred on May 21. Jetta is an established company with a 32-year history in manufacturing. They have issued a short press release announcing Pleo's rebirth. Steve Ohler, the US liaison for Jetta, confirmed the news, saying that the company is firmly committed to re-launching Pleo and continuing the line including producing accessories such as the vital battery and charger components. Jetta, as the original manufacturer, is the best possible company to have acquired Ugobe's intellectual property and to announce plans to re-launch Pleo. Ohler remarked that all of the equipment needed to produce Pleos and accessories is still intact and ready to go."

In related news, Jetta Company, Ltd., will be changing its name to Cyberdyne Systems. And, in other news, Congress has passed the Skynet Funding Bill, which is set to remove human decisions from strategic defense. Details at 11.

If they only made it 5 times bigger. Then I could walk it around the block and freak out my neighbors. Well, they may need to build a different more aggressive dinosaur, that would charge at people and other small animals, but that would be cool.

can suck energy or â"or suck out your powers or somethingâ¦something to do with suckingâ¦and when he overdoes it, he turns into this giant green olâ(TM) Jurassic Park thingâ¦like a dinosaurâ¦a vampire dinosaurâ¦vampire or dinosaur would have been enough, but this guy is bothâ¦which reallyâ¦is just showing off

Spiderman, The New Avengers.

Now, what about a beowulf cluster of ninja-vampire-robot-dinosaur-pirates?

If they were to put a USB port on the thing to allow easy hacking this would be the hottest geek toy come Christmas, especially if it could use the same command set that the Lego robotics package uses.

I always remembered these things having a strong following among both hackers, and the children of the rich. There's a market there, now if only the chinese company can lower the cost so it doesn't seem like you're buying an actual pet without any of the benifits of having a live animal.

continuing the line including producing accessories such as the vital battery and charger components.

If such accessories are vital, the damn toy should have been designed to accept generic batteries and charger instead of @#$$% proprietary consumables. This is one of the suckier aspects of capitalism.